Jeff Sharlet (writer)

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Jeff Sharlet
Born1972 (age 51–52)
EducationHampshire College (BA)
OccupationAuthor
EmployerDartmouth College

Jeff Sharlet (born 1971) is an American academic, journalist, and author. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe '35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College.[1] Throughout his career, Sharlet's work has focused on religion.[citation needed]

Career

He is a contributing editor for

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's Outspoken Award, and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
's Thomas Jefferson Award.

Sharlet is the co-creator of two online journals: Killing the Buddha, a literary magazine about religion, co-founded with Peter Manseau and The Revealer, a review of religion and media published by the New York University Center for Religion and Media.

He is the former editor-in-chief of Pakn Treger, a journal published by the

National Yiddish Book Center
.

Sharlet's interest in religion developed during childhood. Sharlet's mother was from a

Pentecostal Christian background. His father is of secular Jewish background.[2][3][4] Raised in an eclectic religious environment, attending various people's churches and temples, he has said that he gravitates to stories about people's beliefs as the most natural way to engage the world.[5]

Sharlet was an executive producer of the five-part Netflix series The Family (2019), based on his books The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. He appears in interview segments throughout the series.

Published books

  • In 2023
    The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War
  • In 2020 W.W. Norton published This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers.
  • In 2014 Yale University Press published Radiant Truths: Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and Other Essays on American Belief, edited by Jeff Sharlet.
  • In 2011 W.W. Norton published Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between. The book investigates the margins of personal belief in America.
  • In 2010,
    Little Brown
    published C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy.
  • In 2008
    The Family
    , a secretive association of Christian evangelicals.
  • In 2009 Beacon Press published Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, co-edited by Sharlet and Peter Manseau.
  • In 2004 Free Press published Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible, coauthored by Sharlet and Peter Manseau.

References

  1. ^ "Jeff Sharlet | Faculty Directory". faculty-directory.dartmouth.edu. 2 April 2013. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  2. ^ Interview, Jeff Sharlet, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, May 28, 2004
  3. Sydney Morning Herald
    . Retrieved 2008-08-12.
  4. ^ "Jeff Sharlet | Bio | About Jeff Sharlet". jeffsharlet.com. Archived from the original on May 10, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "Scotia's Jeff Sharlet enjoying writing success". The Daily Gazette. Schenectady News. January 24, 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2019.

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